The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, (COPPPAL), in a meeting held in Bonaire with the political formations of this island, Aruba and Curacao, which belong to our regional entity and headed by its president, Manolo Pichardo, discussed the situation that cross the mentioned islands that to say of the assistants go back towards a process of recolonización that violates agreements signed in the United Nations.

Bonaire leaders said that their people expressed, through a referendum, that they do not want to remain in the current status of a state municipality (colonial status). Likewise, the people of Statia, also in a referendum, stated that they do not want to maintain their colonial status, while Curacao expressed their disagreement with the supervision that controls its finances and judicial apparatus.

With the imposition by Holland of a Governor in Aruba, a financial supervision college and the transfer of his Court of Justice to Curacao, the Dutch crown violates the 1954 agreements, in which the UN urges the Netherlands to initiate a process of Decolonization and self-determination of the peoples under its control, in which the European country committed itself to make an annual report of the progress of the suggested process.

In addition to the violations of the agreements of 1954 Holland has incurred in the ignorance of the autonomy that was granted to Aruba in 1983, after an intense fight led by Bertico Croes and other important leaders.

The parties in Bonaire also denounced that Holland has circumvented clause 16/54 which defines the rules to prevent the massive entry of European Dutch into the islands, because with it and the decision that in 90 days they can exercise the right to vote, could have a decisive impact on matters concerning the natives, which would represent a new type of colonization.

Given that some of the islands are not being taken into account for the definition of their self-determination, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, (COPPPAL), demands to put Bonaire, Statia and Saba on the list of the Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations as peoples that do not have their own government.

We also strongly urge respect for the autonomy of these islands and reject any oversight over Aruba, Curaçao and Saint Martin because these could constitute re-colonizing actions.

COPPPAL is committed to accompany the parties of the so-called Dutch islands in their fight against colonial status and the implementation of a possible recolonization scheme using the mechanisms that the International Community and institutions such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Central American Integration System (SICA), the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM).

We will also notify the parliamentary expressions of the integration schemes of our region: the Central American Parliament PARLACEN); the Parliament of the South (PARLASUR); the Andean Parliament (PARLANDINO) and the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO); as well as the internal parliaments of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba.

Our Conference also urges all the islands to begin a process of integration that will allow them to push their struggles in one direction, so that the struggle for sovereignty will have greater weight and momentum.